What is behind Maghreb unrest?

First ,I'm Not Unemployed But Unemployment is a situation the vast majority of people dread. Having to tell people such as relatives, friends and acquaintances about your jobless status can be shameful and embarrassing
For the millions of you who are unemployed, this may be an extremely unsettling and uncomfortable time for you. Some of you may still be in a sleepwalking shock, still not fully aware of this new state of existence, while others of you may have fallen into a deep depression, unable to get out of bed. Whatever your reaction may be, losing a job can be one of the most challenging times of your life.
In order to deal with being unemployed and prevent anxiety and worry from becoming your daily companions
The longer a person is unemployed, the more difficult it becomes to build the psychological and emotional desire needed to seek employment, get job interviews, and consider offers.

Unemployment cut across all the sphere of the continent ranging from Structural to Frictional Unemployment,Structural Unemployment and Cyclical Unemployment. The youth sometimes make mistake by relying on the government for jobs when the youth themselves can start something on their own.How many people go on retirement that the youth have to be replaced in their various vacant positions? It is very easy for one to create job for others to be employed.This means that you will be a bourgeosie because you will own your business and can even bost about it.If you are not working for somebody that doesn't necessarily mean you should remain idle.The youth should cast their mind to the people they rate as the billionnaires and read about their history how they were able to make is grand.
I think laziness and our inability to be creative and innovative is the root cause of unemployment in our various countries especially the SSA countries.The government can make attempt by introducing voactional training and empowering to engage the youth but how many youth will they employ and what about those who will not get the chance of being recruited? It will remain the same-unemployment!

please, what's happening in Tunisia is completly different from Algeria!!!!!
Make specialist talk about that in your journal

I am 20 years old and am employed on £4.92 with shifts starting after 10pm and going on till 1-6 am. This is at one of the most profitable nightclubs in my city. Jobs such as this or if lucky a supermarmarket role are the only significant job oppurtunitys available and are not exactly satisfying. I think people should look not just at the problems of youth unemployment but also the mistreatment of youths by the larger businesses. I dont see my boss face to face, but in my last job when i did they felt obliged to give me a fairer wage and better working condtions.
I think Elizebeths view are extremelly misguided arguing there are many entrepreneurial oppurtunities out there for youths.Firstly larger business have a monopoly on markets leaving very limited oppurtunities. 2nd current debt not least through Universtity tuition fees leaves us in a position where we dont have the oppurtunity to take financial risks. Thirdly if creativity is the problems then withdrawing uni funds for the arts and humanties is shorly very stupid.Whats more in our financial system there are many jobs that need doing such as green, social jobs and creating accomadation for the poor, yet these are not profitable in our system that fails to reward entreprenuers who aim really benefit society. Instead being left for good people to do through volunteering.

I suspect things are much harder in the poorer sub saharan countries, i suspect globalisation and neo-liberalism has been damaging there society for years now.

Unemployment has been a canker warm that has eaten deep into the fabrics of our society,to justify this, the government is to blamed in the other hand,they failed to create more job opportunities, using government funds on unnecessary projects, they also failed to retire those who are due for retirement so that there will be a space for job seekers, secondly, they reject job for those who are qualified for a certain work just because they couldn,t afford a specific ransome in exchange of job, if you take the census of those protestant majority of them are graduate, now if you are among them how will you feel ? but honestly, we should not rely much on government, rather strive be to self-employed .

Youth unemployment especially in Africa arguably poses a serious security and development challenge to many governments within the continent. Sadly, many African governments have failed to tackle this problem in a committed and sustained manner, rather prefering cosmetic measures that can only calm the heat for a while. As a young African, I undertook the decision a couple of years ago (for the sake of peace of mind and avoidance of embarassment) to function as if there is no government. As young people of the continent, it's high time we realize that our governments are largely incapable to secure use jobs after education. A couple of years ago in Cameroon, a number of young people protested over rising cost for basic commodities and huge unemployment. What did the government do? She cracked down on them like political opponents, resulting in many lossing their lives and sources of livelihood. The secret is running your life as if there is not government!

Chi Primus

I'm tunisian and i know why everything turn to protestations , let me first tell you that this article is not discribing why and what is happening now .
I would like to kindly tell this journalist to inform better .
People are protesting due to someone called "bouazizi mohammad" who burn him self to protest after that the police took the fruits and vegetables that he was selling on the streets of sidi bouzid (small town in central west tunisia).

After his death, people start to speak loud to express them selves to protest against the unemployement and against the family of the president which is defined as quasi mafia which steal every state goods and abuse with their power .
After some days of protestations ,some people starts to be violent in some towns in west center and south of the country by burning goverment buildings and the pictures of the president which are everywere on the streets the police starts to use their guns to shoot them directly in the head and cheast .

This action of violance from the police as shooting their own people an civilians mostly young graduated let others go out to protest .
Now the goverment want to say to the oxident countries and europe that there are terrorist int the country and the goverment is fighting against them and hide the fact that young protesting people were shoot by real guns and considered as terrorists !!

May be because they were protesting violently by burning ties on the street or some old buildings of the goverment .

All this in goal to maintain his dictature and tyranny ... now we are living this scenario since 23 years , we are not terrorist we are not babies any more . We want our freedom !

As a former worker with government of Tunisia, I am really pessimistic with all what the government said because it isn't the true. All statistics are biaised. The government lies as it drinks. I have the proof of that and I know exactly the methods used by it to alterate the reality in order to present to the people and international community that the situation in Tunisia is like a paradise. Governement of Tunisia dislikes workers who like to do a good job. It denies the right of any serious person to contribute in improving the life of tunisian people and it threats them if they refuse to obey to it false rules of work. That why there's a huge gap between population and government. I have many to say about economic reform in Tunisia and all the warnings adressed to the government.

[Personal details removed by Moderator]The situation of joblessness in Africa is based on the sense of the employers to seek to employ only those who they favor. There are qualified people without jobs in Africa than there are unqualified people who have jobs. The Jesus philosophy of "give to those who have and take from those who have even the little" is working in Africa.

Young people undergo unemployment everywhere but what makes it special in those countries is precisely the unequal repartitions of jobs. Only the elites hijack all the wealth and the little opportunities that could exist are kept by the elites or members of their families That is the reason why Democracy become the necessary tool, not because we're ideally searching for a political change, but because a more democratic system would ease the separation of power, and the econmic resources would not be hijacked by the same ruling families.

Long live the Maghreb revolution.